n Quixote is going by a set of rules of chivalry that he obtained from his reading. At night, Don Quixote refuses to sleep "but thought about his Lady Dulcinea, to conform to what he had read in his books about knight errants spending many sleepless nights in the woodland and desert dwelling on the memory of their ladies"(70). I do not believe that Don Quixote is mad, as some may say, but that he is only interpreting what he has read to suit him. If Don Quixote were a real human in today's society his family could very well sue the publishers of the books that he read, claiming that the books drove him to insanity and should not have been published. However, if all written works were feared in that context, then it is also a possible that all books are to be feared. This is shown when Don Quixote's niece helps a priest and a barber to burn Don Quixote's treasured books of chivalry. When the barber suggests that "These do not deserve burning with the rest, because they do not and will not do the mischief those books of chivalry have done"(61). The niece exclaims: "Your worship should have burnt them like the rest. For once my uncle is cured of this disease of chivalry, he might very likely read those books and take it into this head to turn she

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